I am teaching a programming course using VB.NET. My institution already has the latest version of VPL installed in Moodle. However, VB.net is not one of the languages readily supported by VPL. How easy or hard would it be to set up VPL for using this language? What steps are involved?
In reply to Meir Goldenberg
Re: Virtual Programming lab (VPL) with VB.net
Hello Meir
First I must say that I never have installed or used VB.net as you request, but seems that the "mono proyect" can solve your problem
http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/languages/visualbasic/
Steps to get code in VB.net runs in VPL
1) Install mono visual basic compiler in your(s) jail server(s)
Command in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install mono-vbnc
2) Create a VPL activity with your own "vpl_run.sh" to run VB.Net code.Take the default VPL C# script and adapt it to use vbnc
https://github.com/jcrodriguez-dis/moodle-mod_vpl/blob/master/jail/default_scripts/csharp_run.sh
3) Use the previous activity as "based on" (VPL feature) in the other activities that use VB.Net
Best regards
Juan Carlos Rodriguez